McCain Visits a Hospital in Allentown

By Michael D. Shear ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 30 — Sen. John McCain heaped compliment on a hospital here for its innovative use of technology as he continued a week-long health care tour aimed at highlighting his free-market plans for revamping the way medical insurance is delivered. But McCain came under instant criticism from Democrats who pointed out that the hospital — Lehigh Valley — had been the recipient of budget earmarks like those that McCain opposed in his ongoing

battle against pork barrel spending on Capitol Hill. The afternoon event was designed by McCain’s campaign as an interactive demonstration of medical technology at a hospital that is described as one of the most “paper-free” in the country. Doctors at the facility used several large flat-screen televisions to associate to isolated locations, displayed real-time patient goods on computer screens and showed how medical records, including X-rays, could be instantly retrieved on

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